Geoffrey B. Veteran Posted October 16, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 16, 2009 A Philadelphia-area postal worker with sticky fingers has admitted to intercepting $86,000 worth of games originally intended for subscribers of GameFly's video game rental service. Source [Kotaku] Original News Article. [Philly] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightEco Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 $86,000! You'd think someone would have noticed before it got that high... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoLiMiT06 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Same thing happened to me, I used to have a subscription and they cancelled it stating that they could not deliver to a area where there games keep coming up missing. Very disappointing because it costs me $8 per game to rent at Blockbuster... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acnpt Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Its happened to me here in the UK too, with a smiliar service called Lovefilm. Only 2 have gone missing, but its annoying as you need to fill in a claim form otherwise you get charged for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted October 16, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 16, 2009 Happened to me, too. I was a member for 3 months and at least 80% of the games shipped either never made it back to Gamefly or never got to my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 What a coincidence, I live in PA and the mail man who deliver my mail looks like a thief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted October 16, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 16, 2009 Original source link is broken. It should be http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_updat..._envelopes.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted October 16, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 16, 2009 what kind of packadging do they deliver these in? is it like netflix where it says the darn name on the envelope? because that's just asking for theft... send the thing out in a plain white mailer... with return addresses that dont give away who it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrosslover Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 what kind of packadging do they deliver these in? is it like netflix where it says the darn name on the envelope? because that's just asking for theft... send the thing out in a plain white mailer... with return addresses that dont give away who it is... yeah I really don't know why they haven't changed that yet, that is just asking for trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 We have had one Netflix go missing on us, ironically it was the movie Premonition. The odd thing was, we reported it as missing, got the replacement DVD two days later and lo and behold the missing was was returned. Someone intercepted it and watched it. Made us nervous about our mail after that. I have a feeling that a lot of goodies go missing all over the country as a result of sticky fingered employees of delivery services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acnpt Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 yeah I really don't know why they haven't changed that yet, that is just asking for trouble. The postal company pays them back for losses/theft etc, and over here they use the envelope for advertising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoLiMiT06 Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Still a shame the we as the customer get screwed when this happens... I would love to resubscribed to it :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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